Book to Screen
Track recent announcements for film, television, and limited-series adaptations.
Disney+ has given a green light to Afterlife with Archie, an hourlong drama series based on the best-selling Archie comic book series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla. It will have a Halloween 2027 premiere on the streamer. The order comes nine months after the project landed at Disney+ with a big script-to-series commitment. Afterlife […]
EXCLUSIVE: Three of the gang behind Severance have teamed up on a new sci-fi series for Hulu. Adam Scott, who stars as Mark Scout in the Apple series, and writers Ezra Claytan Daniels and Eli Jorné are developing a series based on graphic novel Shifter for the Disney-owned streamer. Shifter is based on the Hachette […]
It’s time to dig deep once more in the dystopian world of Apple TV’s Silo, based on the books by Hugh Howey. Season 3 of the science-fiction television series adaptation arrives right before America’s 250th birthday. With some new faces joining Season 3 after Steve Zahn boarded the show in Season 2, Juliette’s lost memories […]
The series adaptation of Elin Hiderbrand’s The Five-Star Weekend dropped on Peacock this week. Based on her 2023 novel, the series stars Jennifer Garner. Bekah Brunstetter (Maid, This Is Us) created and wrote the series adaptation. The first adaptation of her work, The Perfect Couple, was a hit for Netflix and has spawned a Season 2, which will be […]
EXCLUSIVE: Railroad Daddy Morgan Spector is poised to succeed America’s Dad Tom Hanks as Professor Robert Langdon. The Gilded Age star is in negotiations to headline Netflix’s series adaptation of Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Secret of Secrets, sources said. Rebecca Hall (The Town) is in talks for the female lead opposite Morgan in the […]
Prime Video is headed back to Beechwood Island for a second season of its YA series adaptation We Were Liars. Based on E. Lockhart’s novel of the same name, the first season splashed onto the streamer in the summer of 2025 with all episodes at once. It received a Season 2 renewal in September of […]
JuVee Productions, the production company founded by Emmy and Oscar winner Viola Davis and producer Julius Tennon, has entered into a first-look deal with Universal Global Television. Under the pact, Juvee will develop and produce series with UGT for all platforms, and has set Pawn, a series adaptation based on an original short story by […]
Apple TV has handed a series order to Guilty Creatures, a new thriller based on Mikita Brottman’s acclaimed true-crime book Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida, starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Julia Garner (Ozark, Weapons). Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, Your Friends & Neighbors, Pam & Tommy), will direct and Stuart […]